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Speaker 1: to the Welcome to the Daily Shadow. I'm Al Franken
Speaker 1: and it's Tuesday, which is the day Trump told us
Speaker 1: he was going to be arrested, which it uh, it
Speaker 1: turns out didn't happen. So that's the So that's the
Speaker 1: last time I believe something that guy said. We've We've
Speaker 1: got a great show for you to night, and let's
Speaker 1: get right into the headlines. Let's begin right here in
Speaker 1: New York City, the greatest city in the world. It's
Speaker 1: changing its pronouns. The iconic I Love New York logo
Speaker 1: is getting a makeover. The new campaign we Love New
Speaker 1: York City, launched by official staff, helped the city we
Speaker 1: bound from the pandemic. Designers keeping the big red heart
Speaker 1: but switching up the font a little bit. Mayor Adams
Speaker 1: and Governor hokel on hand in Times squad to unveiled
Speaker 1: the new logo with the help of Broadway stars and
Speaker 1: community leaders. No one will ever beat New York is down,
Speaker 1: and we took the eye out of I Love New
Speaker 1: York and we brought the we when this together. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's not I anymore. It's we as in week and
Speaker 1: a Ford Rent. Or we just got pushed in front
Speaker 1: of the subway, or or we just pushed someone in
Speaker 1: front of the subway. But if you're wondering how they
Speaker 1: got this incredible new slogan, I actually have some of
Speaker 1: the some of the runners up here. Let's see some
Speaker 1: of the other options were we love jw York. Okay,
Speaker 1: jew York, jew York, start spreading the Jews, and then
Speaker 1: they told Kanye to leave the meeting, and that's when
Speaker 1: That's when they settled on we love New York City. Now,
Speaker 1: let's move on to a story that's very sad for
Speaker 1: those of us who love Fox News, because it turns
Speaker 1: out that a producer for Tucker Carlson is suing the network,
Speaker 1: saying that the network pressured her to lie in the
Speaker 1: dominion voting machines lawsuit. And I actually wasn't surprised about
Speaker 1: this at all, because all the way back twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: I wrote a book about Fox News called Lies and
Speaker 1: the Lying Liars Who tell them Lies, Lies and the
Speaker 1: Lining Liars who tell them a fair and balance look
Speaker 1: at the right, and in fact, I wanted to treat
Speaker 1: you guys tonight. So look, all of you, look under
Speaker 1: your seats and you'll find directions to a local bookstore
Speaker 1: where you can buy you can buy lies for twenty
Speaker 1: ninety nine. Okay, let's move on to international news. This week,
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is hosting Chinese President Shi Jinping for a
Speaker 1: three day summit in Moscow, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: are upset with she for posing up to Putin after
Speaker 1: he's become an international pariah. But you know what, I
Speaker 1: think that that is exactly the time when you really
Speaker 1: find out who your friends are. We should all be
Speaker 1: so lucky to have a friend like President She, who
Speaker 1: doesn't judge us for every little crime against humanity. And
Speaker 1: other overseas news, there was a big win for workers
Speaker 1: in France who will now get to work longer than ever.
Speaker 1: Despite weeks of protests from lazy French people who who
Speaker 1: wanted to keep the retirement age in sixty two, the
Speaker 1: government has now raised the age at which workers can
Speaker 1: retire with a pension to sixty four. And this is
Speaker 1: terrible news because is leading to a revolution in France.
Speaker 1: And last time that happened, we all had to listen
Speaker 1: to Russell Crowe saying show tunes. So fix this right now, France.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, but I have no patience for people
Speaker 1: who need to stop working in their early sixties. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm seventy one and I'm working and I haven't lost
Speaker 1: a step feet. I'm as sharp as I was when
Speaker 1: I started on Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live. I
Speaker 1: haven't lost a step since then. And that was back
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five, nearly twenty forty long decades. But
Speaker 1: let's get to the story today that makes Let's get
Speaker 1: to the story today that makes all the other stories
Speaker 1: kind of pointless. According to the UN, We're all going
Speaker 1: to die. Just into CNN a dire warning about the
Speaker 1: state of the planet. A new UN report warns the
Speaker 1: climate time bomb is ticking and the world is running
Speaker 1: out of time to avoid disastrophe. This report tells us
Speaker 1: we need a quantum leap in climate action, and every
Speaker 1: country in the world has to reduce emissions at warp
Speaker 1: speed to try to curb the warming of our planet.
Speaker 1: We are nowhere close to making that Paris Agreement goal
Speaker 1: of curbing warming to one point five degrees celsius from
Speaker 1: pre industrial levels. To accomplish all of it, developed and
Speaker 1: the richest nations in the world would need to reach
Speaker 1: zero by twenty forty. That is going to be nearly impossible. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's awful, But I guess a shout out to my
Speaker 1: baby boomers. Feels like we got the last chopper out
Speaker 1: of Saigon, and that's a reference we baby boomers understand now.
Speaker 1: Part of the problem is the UN's expectation of collective action.
Speaker 1: It's just easy to shirk your part when everybody has
Speaker 1: to chip in. So the solution here is to call
Speaker 1: out people individually. The next UN report shouldn't say we
Speaker 1: all must lower our emissions. It should say, Gary, stop
Speaker 1: driving your car so much. You don't You don't need
Speaker 1: to visit your wife's grave every day. She's not keeping track.
Speaker 1: The fact is, on our current path, we're in for
Speaker 1: a grim future. And find out just how grim. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the future to talk to dasilidik Hi. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I am reporting from the year twenty seventy five. Can
Speaker 1: you believe it? This space is ninety three? Take that,
Speaker 1: Paul Rod, I'm afraid to ask, but how is the
Speaker 1: climate crisis going sixty years from now? Climate crisis? We
Speaker 1: sold that years ago. Look, the entire world looks like
Speaker 1: a leaf of frank folder. Hold on, we fix climate change.
Speaker 1: How did how did that happen? Well, it started when
Speaker 1: the UN issued its report on March twentieth, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: warning that we had to radically reduce carbon emissions by
Speaker 1: twenty four party. So we read the report and we
Speaker 1: made all the changes and saved the world. Back to you, Ala,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the report from yesterday. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: laid out exactly what we needed to do. So everyone
Speaker 1: just came together and did it. Why wouldn't we Well,
Speaker 1: what wasn't doing all that really expensive? Oh? Yeah, definitely was.
Speaker 1: But the alternative was the destruction of the planet, So
Speaker 1: of course we just spent the money. Obviously. Back to you, Al,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Everything sounds so great in the future.
Speaker 1: Oh it sure is. A little guy a grassland sparrow.
Speaker 1: I thought those were going to extinct. Oh they were,
Speaker 1: but we turned it around. We reforested the Amazon, We
Speaker 1: got all the plastic out of the ocean and up
Speaker 1: cycled it into friendship bracelets. That we all wear un ironically,
Speaker 1: plus all the children in the world joined hands and
Speaker 1: saying in a harmony so beautiful it ended war forever. Wow,
Speaker 1: holy crap, Really all that happened? Oh my god, No,
Speaker 1: you're dumb, dumb, I'm being sarcastic. You think that for
Speaker 1: some reason, we're gonna suddenly start listening to un climate reports. No, Ell,
Speaker 1: I'm not from the future. This is all fake. I
Speaker 1: am literally in the same room as you right now.
Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so stupid. I did. I just didn't
Speaker 1: realize that. Yeah. I hate to say it, but we're
Speaker 1: just going to keep on driving forward expeditions and burning
Speaker 1: fossil fuels until the ocean swallows this whole. Oh well,
Speaker 1: I guess you're right, Daisy, And you know that's our
Speaker 1: our satirical point. If only satire had the power to
Speaker 1: change the future for the better. Yeah, well, al, I
Speaker 1: mean the good news is there's still a chance that
Speaker 1: our sharp witted satire will inspire people to make the
Speaker 1: necessary changes to save our planet. Wow. Really, No, were
Speaker 1: you really a seditor? Yes, yes, I was, Daisy Light
Speaker 1: like everyone. All right, when we come back, I'm going
Speaker 1: to dig around in your trash, So don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Welcome back to the Daily Show, Coming to
Speaker 1: you from fabulous New York City. New York is a
Speaker 1: city of superlative's biggest, tallest, richest, most duane edist. But
Speaker 1: because so many people live in New York, it's also
Speaker 1: the trashiest city in the US. So recently I decided
Speaker 1: to try and answer a very basic question. Do you
Speaker 1: ever wonder where your garbage actually goes? As a New Yorker,
Speaker 1: I've always kind of assumed I was taken away by
Speaker 1: some garbage ferry after I put it outside my apartment. Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out that's not the case. In fact, I
Speaker 1: don't know what happens to it. So I'm here at
Speaker 1: the ninety first Street transfer station to find out a
Speaker 1: commission My guide is Jessica Tish, new York's forty first
Speaker 1: Commissioner of Sanitation. A lifelong New Yorker with only three
Speaker 1: Harvard degrees, Tish formerly held high ranking positions in both
Speaker 1: the city administration and the Police Department, and all that
Speaker 1: has led her to this. Wow, that is that's a
Speaker 1: lot of trash. Yeah, no, this isn't a lot of
Speaker 1: trash for us it's probably in less than five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand count ements. This is what you wanted to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: girl can dream there. It is desperate run sanitation. Why
Speaker 1: did you want this? Because sanitation is the essential service.
Speaker 1: Every day New Yorkers live twenty four million pounds of
Speaker 1: trash and recycling. If a million pounds we don't do
Speaker 1: our job for one day. Yeah, everyone in New York
Speaker 1: City notices. If we don't do our jobs for two
Speaker 1: or three days, that's a public health crisis. Commissioner Tish
Speaker 1: has already been a dynamo of innovation, bringing new ideas
Speaker 1: and a breath of fresh air the Gotham's piles of garbage.
Speaker 1: We announced this week that we're changing to set out
Speaker 1: times for trash to eight pm. This week, the Department
Speaker 1: of Sanitation launched its first all borro composting program. A
Speaker 1: gift swing that you can take at cleaning up our
Speaker 1: streets is to shut down the all night, all you
Speaker 1: can eat rat buffet. Tell me about you. I've been
Speaker 1: associated with the word rat and rats because you said
Speaker 1: something that went by the rats don't run this city.
Speaker 1: We do. Rats don't run the city. Rats don't run
Speaker 1: the city. We just like a mom. I think I
Speaker 1: went viral. Jesse Tish took it to the rats. The
Speaker 1: idea is one third of the material in these black
Speaker 1: bags is food. As we're trying to take the food
Speaker 1: a hump, post it and create soil. Now the rats
Speaker 1: won't like that. The rats will hate that. But the
Speaker 1: rats don't run the city. We did. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: look out, trucks coming. I think you know what? Really,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We have to go. This is mine? Okay,
Speaker 1: trash here, I'm stepping in cabbage, isn't it? Oh? From here,
Speaker 1: the trash is loaded into containers and put on barges.
Speaker 1: Then makes a stop at Staten Island. What are you?
Speaker 1: Good goots? But not even trash want us to stay there.
Speaker 1: So then it shovels off the Buffalo by rail where
Speaker 1: it's burned to generate electricco What what's that? Thanks scrapping
Speaker 1: our composting mascot? Can you come over here? I got
Speaker 1: a bone to pick with you. You clearly models scrappy
Speaker 1: after me? The glasses, Dave, be kind of the jew
Speaker 1: fro What about the eyebrows? Those are my eyebrows? Exactly?
Speaker 1: You should be flattered. It's our composting mascot. I'm my monitor.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you scrapping. Okay, go away. So far,
Speaker 1: I've learned that I'm a composting bin, that trash travels
Speaker 1: more than I do, and that I don't have to
Speaker 1: bring my own garbage bag to the transfer station. And
Speaker 1: that's thanks to New York's unsung heroes, the track collectors
Speaker 1: like the next let me ride along his night shift
Speaker 1: through Manhattan's Westville. All right, all right, let's get ready
Speaker 1: to roll the quicker. We get it done the quicker.
Speaker 1: The rats don't have to want to know something. The
Speaker 1: rats don't run the city. That's true, Yes, correct, they don't.
Speaker 1: We run the city. What about this thing about the
Speaker 1: just the trash not being out that that is a
Speaker 1: very smart idea, because you know what, I guess scitation
Speaker 1: has been doing it for seventy eighty years. Putting it
Speaker 1: out at four pm sits off for sixteen hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense to put it out at a PM,
Speaker 1: less time on the street, less rots. It was gonna
Speaker 1: be a long night. I wondered if I was ever
Speaker 1: gonna make it as a garbage Hey, I'm more okaid here,
Speaker 1: especially with the bang we're picking up garbage here. We're
Speaker 1: picking up garbage here. Okay, we're gonna move, but we're
Speaker 1: picking up garbage here. Turns out it was a natural.
Speaker 1: You're doing it wrong. Okay, that you're back, Gonna go out,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, Hey, this is easy. You ever spend three
Speaker 1: hours trying to write a joke and not be able
Speaker 1: to him? Okay, No, this is nothing. Letting you talk
Speaker 1: another time? Blocks to go. Okay, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you guys are fine without me, and so can you
Speaker 1: give me a lift home? I'm on the Upper West Side.
Speaker 1: You want to go on the back home. Even though
Speaker 1: Nick refused to give me a ride home, I knew
Speaker 1: it was because he has something much more important to do.
Speaker 1: Keep our streets clean. After all, this is New York City.
Speaker 1: We all need to work together with mutual respect to
Speaker 1: do it. A big thank you, A big thank you
Speaker 1: to Commissioner Jessica Tish, Nick and Tommy and everyone at
Speaker 1: the Department of Sanitation. You people are amazing. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back with succession is Alan Rock right after that.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is
Speaker 1: a wonderful actor who plays Connor Roy on the Emmy
Speaker 1: award winning the HBO series Succession. Please welcome Alan Rock. Hello,
Speaker 1: Senator Hello, somehow you got a bigger welcome than Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham last night. I don't know how that happened. I
Speaker 1: love the show. My wife and I watch it every
Speaker 1: Sunday night, and we're looking forward to Sunday for the premiere. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the saga of the roy family. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and Connor is the oldest son, and uh, you are
Speaker 1: maybe the least accomplished. It's sick to say that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and I know this is going to be the last season, right,
Speaker 1: yeah it is, So how does it end? I can't
Speaker 1: do it, not even for you. I'm sorry, I can't. Okay.
Speaker 1: Well you're you're seeing that that clip you're running for president? Yes,
Speaker 1: I am. Okay, So you can't tell us whether or
Speaker 1: not you win. No, but I'm working that one percent. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean that's leverage. Okay, it might have been a
Speaker 1: tip off. Maybe you don't, but you never know. Things
Speaker 1: get weird, right, it's a crazy show. It's surprising. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't out guess Jesse Armstrunk. So yeah, he's the
Speaker 1: he's our creator and head writer. Yes, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: heard him interviewed and he said that that your father
Speaker 1: in the series, Logan Roy has said that that he
Speaker 1: loves all his children, right, Brian Cox has said that. Right. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean that's amazing to me. I think as much
Speaker 1: as Logan is capable of loving anything, he does love
Speaker 1: his children. He's just bitterly disappointed in all of them.
Speaker 1: I think, so especially you don't you think, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they just they make me stand to the back of
Speaker 1: the picture whenever there's the oldest son and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a sad little history. You know. He probably divorced
Speaker 1: my mother when I was about eight, and I lived
Speaker 1: with her for ten years, and she was in and
Speaker 1: out of mental institutions, and I was in and out
Speaker 1: of boarding schools, and I didn't see my father for
Speaker 1: three or four years. So it wasn't it was like Dickens,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, sorry, yeah, so okay, got it? Man?
Speaker 1: So so in the campaign and so do you so
Speaker 1: in the campaign you're running for president? There is a
Speaker 1: something interesting about your marriage? Oh yes, specifically something you
Speaker 1: want to talk about. Not if you don't, what's your sure? Yes,
Speaker 1: my Willa was at one point a professional escort and
Speaker 1: then I convinced that no, I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: got to make a living, and I convinced her to
Speaker 1: have me be her exclusive client. Um and maybe against
Speaker 1: her better judgment, she's actually developed some affection for me.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say she's in love, but she's become protective
Speaker 1: of me over these uh and her. You produced a
Speaker 1: play for her that she wrote, Sands. It was called Sands,
Speaker 1: about a woman who's trapped in the desert by an
Speaker 1: evil king. That that sounds like it could be really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: evidently not. It didn't get good reviews. I no, no,
Speaker 1: I remember the scene where she throws the iPad off
Speaker 1: the off the yacht. Yeah, yeah, she was, she was
Speaker 1: having a day. Yeah. So okay, So uh, the show
Speaker 1: it's it's it's going off the air. Yeah, that must say,
Speaker 1: you must. It looks like you guys love each other,
Speaker 1: that you guys love working with each other. I've never
Speaker 1: seen it looks it looks like a tremendous amount of fun.
Speaker 1: It's a brutal, brutal, emotional yeah show. But it's also
Speaker 1: quite funny. Yeah it is. It's wickedly funny. And I
Speaker 1: think something that helps it along is that all the
Speaker 1: actors are wonderfully They're just wonderful, intelligent, kind hearted people
Speaker 1: that are playing all these bastards, you know, so it
Speaker 1: adds something to it that you can't help it like them,
Speaker 1: even though they're miserable human beings. And I I am
Speaker 1: going to miss everybody terribly, but I think Jesse's smart
Speaker 1: to end it on this high note. Yeah. Well, sometimes
Speaker 1: things run their course. But I just I'm going to
Speaker 1: miss saying it. But I can't wait. It's Sunday is
Speaker 1: when it starts, So it starts this Sunday coming up.
Speaker 1: Does somebody end up getting the leadership of the company
Speaker 1: because a lot of this has been all about one
Speaker 1: of the six las? Yeah, succession? Yeah, nice Jack Eddy,
Speaker 1: of course, of course. Yeah, I can just say that
Speaker 1: someone does. Wow. Okay, that's that's good to know. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: having gone through this, do you have any have you
Speaker 1: developed any kind of sympathy for like Rupert Murdoc's family.
Speaker 1: I guess I would be the Prudence. I guess that's
Speaker 1: his oldest. His eldest is Prudence. Isn't that right? I
Speaker 1: think so? Yes, don't ask me, But I don't really
Speaker 1: feel sorry for these people at the very top of
Speaker 1: the food chain. But they do have to do things
Speaker 1: that we don't like. If you fall in love with somebody,
Speaker 1: you just get to marry them or be with them.
Speaker 1: You know, these people need to be vetted by the family,
Speaker 1: and if you pick the wrong person, they just say no, no,
Speaker 1: I can't have her. So your wife, the call girl
Speaker 1: was vetted a sort of Yeah, they were brutally, they
Speaker 1: were vicious toward her. But since I am dismissive, so
Speaker 1: is she. You know, they don't. They didn't care about
Speaker 1: that too much. If it was Kendall or Roman or
Speaker 1: Chavon had married a questionable person and they would have
Speaker 1: something because you didn't count enough. I don't count not
Speaker 1: enough anyway. Um how many more shows, Well, there would
Speaker 1: be ten. It's ten ten shows. I just can't wait
Speaker 1: to see it. And it's just been a masterful show.
Speaker 1: My congratulations to everyone, Frank Rich the cold producer, and
Speaker 1: just everybody, a bunch of people we'll congratulation. Has been
Speaker 1: the best bunch I've ever worked with, truly so and
Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time out and I
Speaker 1: know some of the other people you've worked with, and
Speaker 1: they're going to be really sorry to hear you know,
Speaker 1: some of us go on a publicity tour and then
Speaker 1: blow it. There's a lot of their old friends. But
Speaker 1: but they're old friends out. Yeah. Yeah, they're not the
Speaker 1: new They're not the new crop, which is that's who
Speaker 1: counts everybody. New friends who can do you some good?
Speaker 1: Isn't that right? Welcome to show business. Yeah, if we
Speaker 1: have any advice for anyone, not just here in the
Speaker 1: audience tonight, but anyone watching on television, new friends who
Speaker 1: can help you out, helen out up. Season four Succeection
Speaker 1: will premiere March twenty six on HBO and HBO MAC. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right
Speaker 1: back after this. That's our that's our show for tonight.
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